You Can Make Jelly from Dandelions!
Its been a few years since I made dandelion jelly. With extra time on my hands I thought I’d make…
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Memories from Choestoe Georgia
We got bologna, cheese, “light bread” and sody (soda) crackers at our stores. And, I have had bologna and cheese…
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Baked Hand Pies
There’s nothing like a good fried pie. Folks sometimes call them hand pies and sometimes they bake them instead of…
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Vegetables and Hickory Chickens
“Along with milk and eggs, vegetables were an integral part of our diet in the mountains. The vegetables most commonly…
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Our First Woodstove
“I remember our first stove so well. We even made a poem about it: So well do I remember The…
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The Way We Make Potato Salad
I love potato salad. I wouldn’t touch the stuff when I was young, but one taste of Miss Cindy’s made…
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Selling Chickens
“When Storekeepers Handled Live Chicken” Country Folks no longer take live chickens to the store to sell. But back in…
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Cabbage Patch Stew
I’ve been making Cabbage Patch Stew since before I was married. Back in the day Granny was really into cutting…
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Old Time Light Cornbread
A few weeks back Emaline B. Winter emailed me to see if I had ever heard of light cornbread. She…
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We Knew When to Churn Milk
“We knew when to churn when the milk went “blinky.” This was our custom before we got electricity: We had…
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Bum Bread
bum bread noun 1980 Smokies Heritage 63 And by and by, storekeepers started selling loaves of white bread, too. Folks…
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Cooking with Fat Back
Laurel Branch Salt pork plays a fat part in mountain cookery. Many of the old-time recipes call for it. Some…
